In Kanazawa Vacancy, Steven Seidenberg documents akiya (vacant houses) and akichi (vacant lots) within architecturally varied neighborhoods in Kanazawa, Japan. The series examines the recent de-densification of Japan’s second largest urban center (after Kyoto) to escape firebombing during WWII. Neighborhoods built with houses from disparate eras are punctuated by demolished lots with no impetus for new construction, leaving behind poetic voids. 

Read more about the project in Places Journal by Carolyn L. White here.